by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Beacon News, Jan. 18, Teresa Budasi) My favorite of 2008 is the latest novel by Wally Lamb. A decade has passed since Lamb was doubly blessed by Oprah and shot to literary fame. In 1997, the talk show queen chose his first novel, “She’s Come...
by vjbooks | Jan 7, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(LJWorld.com, Dec. 1) Wally Lamb’s new novel, 450,000 copies of which have just arrived in bookstores, is big enough to threaten Thanksgiving and maybe even Christmas, as readers ignore turkey basting and tinsel tossing to turn the 723 wide-ranging, heavily plotted...
by vjbooks | Nov 29, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Dallas Morning News, Nov. 23, Joy Tipping) Wally Lamb’s readers must be among the standard-bearers of literary patience: It’s been 10 years since his last novel, I Know This Much Is True, although he has edited two books of stories from the women of York...
by vjbooks | Nov 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.startribune.com, Nov. 15, Claude Peck) In his first novel in 10 years, he sweeps up history, violence and family heartbreak. Dark stuff, but he’s also open to the possibility of redemption. Wally Lamb’s new novel, 450,000 copies of which have just...
by vjbooks | Nov 18, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.cleveland.com, Nov. 16, Janet Okoben) Wally Lamb’s ‘The Hour I First Believed’ is bleak but beautiful Reading Wally Lamb’s new novel, his first in 10 years, is akin to putting on flannel pajamas during the first cold snap of the season....
by vjbooks | Nov 12, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.boston.com, Nov. 3, Jan Gardner) Ten years after his last book, Wally Lamb is back. I’m coming to him late but I found his new novel, “The Hour I First Believed,” out on Nov. 11, engrossing and heart-wrenching. I won’t say too much but it...
by vjbooks | Nov 10, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(publishersweekly.com, Nov 10, Kevin Howell) PW: Your original deadline was 2004. Were you worried when that deadline was approaching? Wally Lamb: Oh yeah, there was worry all through this experience. I had a terrible time starting this book in 1999. The first year...
